# Their Satanic Majesties' Request
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 15, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685 "2017-05-15T20:50:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/21 "2017-05-16T22:40:11Z")
> [@jaycat](#):
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> ugh, really? I didn’t need to know about that.
I knew of the KISS version before the Stones version. I like both a lot but probably prefer the KISS version. 😛
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/22 "2017-05-17T00:13:56Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> and \*Beggar’s Banquet \*all have a couple of fine songs with the rest just for Stones fanatics.
Hmmm…I don’t consider myself a Stones fanatic, but I don’t think there is a bad track on that album. I really have only three Stones albums I like all the way ( or almost all the way ) through. That one, _Let it Bleed_ and _Sticky Fingers_.
Horses for courses, of course. And I agree on TSMR.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/23 "2017-05-17T00:45:56Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> Hmmm…I don’t consider myself a Stones fanatic, but I don’t think there is a bad track on that album. I really have only three Stones albums I like all the way ( or almost all the way ) through. That one, _Let it Bleed_ and _Sticky Fingers_.
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> Horses for courses, of course. And I agree on TSMR.
And I happen to love _Between the Buttons_ more than any other studio Stones album. So very English! I made a pilgrimage last summer, with my then-5-year-old son, to the bit of Primrose Hill Park where the cover photo was taken. Just to give you an idea of how much I love that album. (The US version, that is. I wouldn’t have liked it quite as much had I grown up with it including “Please Go Home.” I wouldn’t have minded “Backstreet Girl,” though.)
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/24 "2017-05-17T02:40:51Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#):
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> What because I thought the white album sucked? I admit there were good songs on it. There were not two LPs’ worth of good songs on it though…not really even one LP’s worth of good songs. My opinion only.
No, because you wrote “Majesty’s” instead of “Majesties”. Fie upon rogue apostrophes!
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/25 "2017-05-17T04:45:50Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> And I happen to love _Between the Buttons_ more than any other studio Stones album…(The US version, that is. I wouldn’t have liked it quite as much had I grown up with it including “Please Go Home.” I wouldn’t have minded “Backstreet Girl,” though.)
So there are at least two of us.
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/26 "2017-05-17T04:48:36Z")
I have a first press copy of this album. I bought it at a garage sale for a quarter in 1972. Still has the plastic on it and an Arlans Department Store price sticker ($3.79).
Kept that one unopened but listened to another. The album has it’s high and lows. I always thought it was odd that KISS remade 2000 Man. Who told Ace he could sing?
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### Author:  [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/27 "2017-05-17T07:03:39Z")
:smack:
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> No, because you wrote “Majesty’s” instead of “Majesties”. Fie upon rogue apostrophes!
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/28 "2017-05-17T11:30:25Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
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> So there are at least two of us.
Yay! 🙂
I included “She Smiled Sweetly” in my wedding reception mixtape.
Okay, sorry for the hijack…we now return you from January 1967 to December of that year…
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/29 "2017-05-17T11:36:58Z")
> [@pkbites](#):
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> I always thought it was odd that KISS remade 2000 Man. Who told Ace he could sing?
Around 1979, each of the four members of Kiss recorded their own solo album\*, and Ace chose to include this on his.
\*Interesting project. I wonder if they came up with the idea to inoculate the band against future divisive “musical differences.” Fun to speculate what other bands’ doing this might have sounded like. John Bonham solo album? (We have “Bonzo’s Montreaux,” on _Coda_).
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/30 "2017-05-17T11:46:27Z")
“She’s a Rainbow” is great, and “2000 Light Years from Home” is still interesting.
Otherwise, pretty forgettable.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/31 "2017-05-17T11:56:46Z")
Sorry, just one more comment on _Between the Buttons_…one reason I like it is because, along with the previous _Aftermath_, it’s peak Brian Jones – multi-instrumentalist and creative world music enthusiast. So sad how Brian slowly fell apart starting in mid-1967 (as the first _Satanic_ songs were being composed), due to the triple whammy of his own “demons,” persecution by authorities for drug possession, and what you might call psychological bullying from his bandmates (one mild example from the time period we’re discussing: Brian as a wilted flower on the cover of the odds-and-ends compilation _Flowers_).
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/32 "2017-05-17T12:09:57Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
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> **We Love You** has been one of my top five Stones songs since the day I first heard it. Terrific song, also noteworthy for the backing vocalists being Jagger, Lennon, and McCartney.
It was a quickly-recorded “thank you” to the fans for supporting the Stones during their drugs charges legal proceedings. Note the jail sound effects at the start.
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/33 "2017-05-17T13:01:31Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Around 1979, each of the four members of Kiss recorded their own solo album\*, and Ace chose to include this on his.
[No he didn’t.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Frehley_(album))
2000 Man was done by KISS (sang by Ace) and appeared on the [Dynasty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(Kiss_album)) album.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/34 "2017-05-17T13:12:03Z")
> [@pkbites](#):
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> [No he didn’t.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Frehley_(album))
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> 2000 Man was done by KISS (sang by Ace) and appeared on the [Dynasty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(Kiss_album)) album.
My mistake. I never owned a Kiss album\* – I was (poorly) recalling being ten years old and looking at my friend’s albums. Thanks for the correction!
\*I did splurge on some mp3s from _Alive II_ a few years ago. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/35 "2017-05-17T14:33:06Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Lest we forget, the whole album isn’t just psychedelic haze. “Citadel” rocks out.
Only number I like on that one.
In the 70’s when I was a little’un whenever I heard “Sing This All Together” I didn’t realise it was the Stones, and thought - who the fuck are these lame hippies?
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/36 "2017-05-17T15:01:29Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Who remembers the original lenticular cover?
I’ve got a copy. And _Sticky Fingers_ with a real working zipper.
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/37 "2017-05-17T17:35:11Z")
i’m a fan of the album, even though it is inconsistent like most Stones albums are. I always wonder what the album would have been like had Brian Jones not been completely wasted out of his mind during that time.
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### Author:  [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/38 "2017-05-17T18:46:04Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> I’ve got a copy. And _Sticky Fingers_ with a real working zipper.
And how about these -
> **[The Velvet Underground & Nico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_%26_Nico#/media/File:Velvet_Underground_and_Nico.jpg)**
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> The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut studio album by the American rock band The Velvet Underground in collaboration with the German singer Nico, released in March 1967 through Verve Records. It was recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour, and was produced by Warhol, with the album featuring a record sleeve that he designed. The album features elements of avant-garde music incorporated into brash, minimal and groove-driven rock musi...
[http://www.superseventies.com/ac17oohlala.html](http://www.superseventies.com/ac17oohlala.html)
[ ](https://beatlefansomethingnew.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/walls-and-bridges-cover.jpg)
Buying albums with moveable covers was a lot more fun than downloading MP3s.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/39 "2017-05-17T19:01:04Z")
> [@dalej42](#):
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> i’m a fan of the album, even though it is inconsistent like most Stones albums are. I always wonder what the album would have been like had Brian Jones not been completely wasted out of his mind during that time.
Then again, maybe Brian came up with all those mellotron effects on “@00 Light Years” while wasted out of his mind!
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### Author:  [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/their-satanic-majesties-request/786685/40 "2017-05-17T20:04:22Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> I’ve got a copy. And _Sticky Fingers_ with a real working zipper.
My Sticky fingers CD case even has the moving zipper.
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